Quotes About Misunderstanding

Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?

Sometimes when a person be thinking about one thing it don't mean they is mad about another thing.

Not with Humphrey in it, you dodo.

He was succeeded by a gentleman who gazed at the Brussels sprouts and asked if the funny little knobs on the stalks were a form of disease. I told him yes. Eczema.

Most men like you are always interested in women like myself, but what they fail to see is this is my job, it isn't necessarily who I am. People tend to meld the two and fail to realize that distinction.

Archer got the distinct impression that he'd offended her. An offended whore?

We are willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

The blame lies with anyone who confuses protection with power.

The terrorists who attacked the Pentagon ... sought to weaken America by shattering this defining symbol of our military might and prowess. But they failed. And they also failed for another reason, not just physically failed. They failed because they continue to fundamentally misunderstand us, as they misunderstood us on that day. For the true source of American power does not lie within that building because as Americans, we draw our strength from the rich tapestry of our people.

When are you gunna forget that? It was ages ago.' Only last year, actually. Reggie was convinced he had cancer because he had a black pot on his tongue - he switched to tea bags after the doctor told him it was a tea leaf.

He was who he was; it was how he thought about himself. He was the man with the secret that nobody could ever get to. You guys look at me and you see nothing- this is how he thought; you see a small and dirty man who doesn't amount to anything, but I know that I can do things and I have done things that you cannot imagine. I am the very Monster of whom you live in terror- and you have no idea that it is Me.

The capacity of mankind to misunderstand the world is without limit.

I've sat behind a microphone and listened for decades as Americans learned to stop talking with each other and start shouting instead. No discussions, just 'socialist' or 'fascist' or 'feminazi' or 'bigot' or whatever. So here's what I want to say, and I think it's the one thing no one ever says any more in our public life: I think you're wrong, but you may be right .

When language fails, violence becomes a language.

There must be a bad chromosome somewhere in man that urges him to wound that which he can't conquer, deface that which is more beautiful, misunderstand and befoul the work of another.

Then, it hit me. I had asked for condiments. The woman from room service—who didn't speak English very well—thought I said condoms

I turned around, and there was Eddie. I didn't know what was happening. I thought it was a bizarre dream but slowly started to figure out that Dale gave Billy the key to his room, and my son, in his infinite wisdom, had given Dale the key to our room. These two idiots decided to mess with me by hopping into the bed naked.

If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

For girls and women, talk is the glue that holds a relationship together - and the explosive that can blow it apart. That's why you can think you're having a perfectly amiable chat, then suddenly find yourself wounded by the shrapnel from an exploded conversation.

Honestly, when I first heard that there were rumors out there about me being gay, I thought, 'Wow, someone must really hate me.' There's nothing wrong with being gay, but I just couldn't understand why someone would make up lies like that.

L.A. has always been hated on so much. I remember, the first time I went to New York, I was at jam sessions, and people would hear me and come up to me and be like, 'Oh wow, you're from L.A.? Really?'

Each couple's version of intimacy is so fascinating to me. A friend will tell me about her marriage, and I'll think, 'Yikes, they have horrible communication! They're going to get divorced!' And then I'll hear about them at another time and think, 'Wow, they love each other so much!'